Sentences with phrase «ivory poachers»

This history of legal ivory trade presents a great dilemma in stopping modern ivory poachers.

SoftBank's decision is vital to protect Africa's elephants from being wiped out by ivory poachers.»

As one of a small band of Indiana Jones - like heroes, you batter and shoot your way through a landscape of ivory poachers and other cruel villains, and every so often, a few animals will join in to deliver their own spot of retribution.

When Bubbles the elephant was rescued from ivory poachers in Africa, she was brought into a safari reserve in the United States for rehabilitation.

The fight of Richard Leakey's late 80s battle with ivory poachers in Kenya that threatened the existence of the African elephant population.

The monarch must weigh the downsides and the ups of his social activist ex-girlfriend, Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o), her campaigns against human trafficking and ivory poachers and her call to open Wakanda's sealed borders to refugees.

Eric Roth has written the script, based on the true story of paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his battle with the ivory poachers who threatened the African elephant population.

Heavily armed ivory poachers, mostly from neighbouring Sudan and Chad but with local involvement as well, perpetrated this systematic poaching, and periods of instability further impacted the crisis.

They are largely losing to ivory poachers, as attested by the latest available data on Africa's two species of elephant, both threatened: savanna elephant populations fell 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, and those of forest elephants plummeted by 62 percent between 2002 and 2011.

National Geographic Fellow and Chief Correspondent Bryan Christy spent over a year tracking African ivory poachers through GPS hidden in fake elephant tusks.

One of the most prominent names at this year's event was Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, who worked with director Imraan Ismail to create The Protectors: A Walk in the Ranger's Shoes, a look at the rangers guarding elephants from ivory poachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Not exact matches

Shutting down the world's largest ivory trade could effectively help prevent poachers from killing elephants for their tusks.

Insidious poachers and greedy ivory profiteers still drive the slaughter, laundering illegal ivory into markets abroad.

This surge was directly correlated to a more than quadrupling of local black - market ivory prices paid to poachers and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit.

Each year more than 30,000 elephants are killed for their ivory by poachers in Africa to satisfy demand in Asia where raw tusks sell for up to $ 2100 per kilogram.

«Our study found 81 per cent of online media coverage was produced in the United States, which has few elephant poachers and few consumers of illegally - sourced ivory,» Mr Braczkowski said.

IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.

«As ivory becomes rarer, the price increases, leading to greater incentives for elephant poachers and illegal stockpilers of ivory,» he said.

Another tip - off is the lack of a face, as poachers hack off the tusks to be sold for ivory.

Then the poachers apparently shifted their targets, because the elephants disappeared from eastern DRC and international attention had ramped up pressure on Zambia (because it wanted to sell stockpiles of ivory), said Bill Clark, an adviser to Interpol and a co-author of the new paper, in a press teleconference.

A 1999 report estimated that at the peak of the ivory trade poachers took 1,000 tons of ivory from Africa each year.

After the initial success of the ivory ban almost 20 years ago, Western nations considered the problem solved and withdrew funding a few years later, leaving poorer countries to fight poachers on their own.

In a best - case scenario, in which neither poachers nor a natural disaster like a drought shrinks or stresses the herd, only 100 to 150 kilograms of ivory could be harvested annually.

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In just the span of two years from 2010 - 2012, 100,000 African elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory and the species is in danger of extinction in the next couple of decades if the poaching continues at this rate.

Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations like Japan to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations.

Soon after my meeting with Hanks, in collaboration with Prince Bernhard he used the funds I had been told about to set up a unit of former SAS soldiers in apartheid South Africa to track down ivory and rhino horn poachers and traders in neighbouring countries.

«Japan's ivory tusk registration scheme is a poacher's paradise, allowing vast amounts of illegal tusks to be legalized for sale on Japan's domestic market,» said EIA president, Allan Thornton.

The brazen attack by Morgan and his crew also highlights the increasing clashes around the world between poachers, often backed by organized criminals, and wildlife rangers as demand for wildlife parts such as ivory, rhino horn, and tiger bones sky rocket.

EIA campaigns for positive change in legislation and policies at national and international levels to close loopholes that facilitate ivory laundering and to increase penalties for poachers and ivory traders.

The group said that poachers kill more than 2,000 elephants in Africa and Asia annually to meet demand for ivory products.

The sight of ivory openly on sale in many cities of Central and Western Africa sends a potent signal to poachers, smugglers and consumers that it is legal to buy and sell unregulated ivory, WWF warns.

@christackett Would rather poachers try for stealing stockpiled confiscated ivory, than kill more animals.